post 146: look back on 2023 progress
Dec. 31st, 2023 08:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
littlemissnovella Just like that 2023 is almost over! Some of my entries have been back-posted in a different date. Some months (like September and October) were back-dated and posted in November, but I labeled the icons that were created in the appropriate months.
January
+I started off the year by creating icons for![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
monthlyinspo, iconthat , and itsabattlefield. I focused on my compositions by focusing on coloring and textures. I have two posts for January.
January
+I started off the year by creating icons for
monthlyinspo, iconthat , and itsabattlefield. I focused on my compositions by focusing on coloring and textures. I have two posts for January. February
+I created icons formonthlyinspo, icontalking and perioddrama_ic . I focused on cropping, lighting, and compositions. I have one post for February.
March
+I created icons formonthlyinspo, and retro_icontest . I focused on cropping, lighting, and compositions. I have one post for March.
+I created icons for
monthlyinspo, icontalking and perioddrama_ic . I focused on cropping, lighting, and compositions. I have one post for February. March
+I created icons for
monthlyinspo, and retro_icontest . I focused on cropping, lighting, and compositions. I have one post for March. April
+I created icons for
retro_icontest, stocklove_ic iconthat. I focused on cropping, lighting, and compositions. I have one post for April. May
+I created icons formonthlyinspo. My personal favorite is the Selena Gomez icon. I focused on cropping, lighting, and compositions. I have one post for May.
+I created icons for
monthlyinspo. My personal favorite is the Selena Gomez icon. I focused on cropping, lighting, and compositions. I have one post for May. June
+ I created icons for
iconthat, icontalking, stocklove_ic and monthlyinspo. I focused on lighting and darkness. I focused on compositions, textures, and coloring. There is one post for June. July
+ I created icons for
retro_icontest, stocklove_ic and monthlyinspo. I focused on coloring, negative space, compositions, and textures. There is one post for July. August
+ I created icons for :
monthlyinspo ,stocklove_ic , screen_icons , andyour_favourites. I focused on coloring, negative space, compositions, textures, and so many stock! There is one post for August. September
+I created icons for
monthlyinspo, retro_icontest, screen_icons, andstocklove_ic. I had so much fun focusing on coloring, composition, and textures for this post. This post was back-dated since I created icons in September but forgot to post to my journal until November. There is one post for September. October
+I created icons for retro_icontest, screen_icons, iconthat, perioddrama_ic, and monthlyinspo and focused on the use of textures/composition. I created one post for October, but the icons were back-dated in November.
November
+I created icons for icontalking,retro_icontest, screen_icons, perioddrama_ic, and monthlyinspo and focused on the use of textures/composition. I created two posts for November.
December
+I created icons monthlyinspo and icontalking. I focused on coloring, lighting, textures, and geometric patterns. I created one post for December.
Closing Thoughts: I feel like I've probably started out wanting to work on my goals that I usually have working on more complex compositions but due to time crunch I ended up doing my style (negative space I guess or even doing stock icons). So to work on my same goals - complex composition and text work especially when I have the time to do so. - note - same closing remarks as last year!
[edit 02/18/2024]:
For 2023, my favorite icon for this year won, so I am incredibly happy! Thanks for everyone who participated & voted:
2023
Prior best icons: please do not recommend any prior bestof_icons as seen below. 
2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016
(2015 - can't post because of how weird the icon comes across here).
Icon remake for 2023: (requested > remake) 
Icon remakes created in 2024: 
Explanations:
These icons can also be nominated for bestof_icons since they were created in 2023 and remade in 2023.
First icon - okay, I wanted to keep the theme of hair porn - so I just focused on her hair again and then decided to use a different background as the first icon. I wanted to do closer cropping specifically on the face and hair area.
These icons can also be nominated for bestof_icons since they were created in 2023 and remade in 2023.
First icon - okay, I wanted to keep the theme of hair porn - so I just focused on her hair again and then decided to use a different background as the first icon. I wanted to do closer cropping specifically on the face and hair area.
Second icon - I just wanted to keep the same composition, but play around with the coloring. I created two icons, because I wasn't sure if to go with the more natural coloring or more vibrant coloring.
Third icon - Same composition for the subject, but I wanted to use unnatural coloring and using a texture to help achieve that goal was there. It also gives a painty feel for the background for the stock.
Fourth icon - Honestly, the original icon was too dark for my liking so I decided to add a lot more light texture and yet keep the hair coloring that vibrant red coloring, then decided to add star textures just to see how it would work and it did! :)
Fifth icon - I liked the subject looking up so I wanted to do the same but add a different texture - circle texture and purple smokey texture to highlight this!
Sixth icon - So I used a different screencap on the same character and used a stock background and added text texture around it to make it stand out.
Fourth icon - Honestly, the original icon was too dark for my liking so I decided to add a lot more light texture and yet keep the hair coloring that vibrant red coloring, then decided to add star textures just to see how it would work and it did! :)
Fifth icon - I liked the subject looking up so I wanted to do the same but add a different texture - circle texture and purple smokey texture to highlight this!
Sixth icon - So I used a different screencap on the same character and used a stock background and added text texture around it to make it stand out.
Part of remake but didn't post above:
Over-saturating the icon to give a more unnatural coloring effect.
Giving credit where it's due: the template for the icon progress was created by: rocketgirl2.livejournal.com
littlemissnovella
These icons were created for
monthlyinspo : (19 icons)I decided to use the textures provided in the prompt and used one icon to be a costume/scary icon.
( -Maya Angelou ) littlemissnovellaIcons created for November: screen_icons (icons 1 - 4), icontalking (icons 5 - 9), perioddrama_ic (icons 10 - 24), retro_icontest (icons 25 -37)
( -Louisa May Alcott )
screen_icons (icons 1 - 4), icontalking (icons 5 - 9), perioddrama_ic (icons 10 - 24), retro_icontest (icons 25 -37) ( -Louisa May Alcott )littlemissnovellaIcons created in October (backdated): retro_icontest (icons 1 - 22), screen_icons (icons 23 - 34), iconthat (icons 35 - 36), perioddrama_ic (icons 37 - 48), and monthlyinspo (icons 49 - 55)
( - David Foster Wallace )
retro_icontest (icons 1 - 22), screen_icons (icons 23 - 34), iconthat (icons 35 - 36), perioddrama_ic (icons 37 - 48), and monthlyinspo (icons 49 - 55) ( - David Foster Wallace )littlemissnovellaIcons created in September: monthlyinspo (icons 1 - 13), retro_icontest (icons 14 - 17), screen_icons (18 - 25), andstocklove_ic (26 - 30)
Total icons: 30
( -Dorothy West )
monthlyinspo (icons 1 - 13), retro_icontest (icons 14 - 17), screen_icons (18 - 25), andstocklove_ic (26 - 30)Total icons: 30
( -Dorothy West )littlemissnovellaThese icons are for the following challenges: monthlyinspo ,stocklove_ic , screen_icons , andyour_favourites
Total icons: 49 icons
( - Anne Frank )
monthlyinspo ,stocklove_ic , screen_icons , andyour_favourites Total icons: 49 icons
( - Anne Frank )littlemissnovellaI feel like this isn't the best work, but once again, I am leaving for another place and I had only a few days to do this entry.
This entry is formonthlyinspo :
( -Wallace Stevens )
This entry is for
monthlyinspo : ( -Wallace Stevens ) littlemissnovellaI am going away soon, so I decided to post the icons that I worked on so far. I worked on iconthat, icontalking, stocklove_ic some random icons and one created for monthlyinspo.
Icons 1 - 11: iconthat
Icons 12 - 13: random, 13 specifically for monthlyinspo
Icons 14 -30 (including alts): icontalking
Icons 31 -37: stocklove_ic
including 23 textures
Quote by Kevin Heath
( remember the time you spent with them. )
iconthat, icontalking, stocklove_ic some random icons and one created for monthlyinspo. Icons 1 - 11: iconthat
Icons 12 - 13: random, 13 specifically for monthlyinspo
Icons 14 -30 (including alts): icontalking
Icons 31 -37: stocklove_ic
including 23 textures
Quote by Kevin Heath
( remember the time you spent with them. )littlemissnovellaThis is my entry for monthlyinspo:
This was so much fun!!!
( ...it's the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul. )
monthlyinspo: This was so much fun!!!
( ...it's the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul. )littlemissnovellaThese are icons that I created in April for: retro_icontest (icons 1-11, 19), stocklove_ic (icons 12-17), iconthat (icon 18):
( -Abraham Joshua Heschel )
retro_icontest (icons 1-11, 19), stocklove_ic (icons 12-17), iconthat (icon 18): ( -Abraham Joshua Heschel )littlemissnovellaThis challenge was quite fun to do especially because of lighting. Icons 1 - 5 are for the entry post for monthlyinspo I know I didn't make a lot but I had to defend (and passed) my dissertation proposal - so super busy this whole month.
Icons 6 - 8 are forretro_icontest
( -Audrey Hepburn )Icon table generated by Chlor's Dreamwidth Icon Table Generator.
monthlyinspo I know I didn't make a lot but I had to defend (and passed) my dissertation proposal - so super busy this whole month. Icons 6 - 8 are for
retro_icontest ( -Audrey Hepburn )Icon table generated by Chlor's Dreamwidth Icon Table Generator.littlemissnovellaThis challenge was quite fun to do, mixture of using natural background and fake background. Icons 1 - 10 are for the entry post for monthlyinspo
( -Buddha )
monthlyinspo ( -Buddha )
Icons for perioddrama_ic :
Icon table generated by Chlor's Dreamwidth Icon Table Generator.
littlemissnovellaThis challenge was quite fun to do, I used provided screencaps and textures. Icons 1 - 10 are for the entry post for fandom10in30 & 11 is for iconthat, 13 is for itsabattlefield & 14 - 21 is for perioddrama_ic
( -Aristotle )
fandom10in30 & 11 is for iconthat, 13 is for itsabattlefield & 14 - 21 is for perioddrama_ic ( -Aristotle )littlemissnovellaThis challenge was quite fun to do. Icons 1 - 20 are for the entry post for the challenge, and 21 - 35 are alternative or extra icons 36 - 40 are for stocklove_ic & icons 41 - 45 are for perioddrama_ic . This post is for monthlyinspo
( -William A. Ward )
stocklove_ic & icons 41 - 45 are for perioddrama_ic . This post is for monthlyinspo ( -William A. Ward )
